[gentoo-embedded] Gentoo on handhelds

[gentoo-embedded] Gentoo on handhelds

[Vladimir Pouzanov]

Hi all,

I'm working on linux port to Palm Tungsten T3 (arm-le) handheld.
Development tasks slowly move from kernel-space to user-space so now
I'm interested in some base distribution/packaging system for the
handheld.

I'm choosing from gentoo-embedded, CRUX and OpenEmbedded. OE is
targeted for handhelds but it has absolutely weird build system
(however it is similar to portage... sometimes). CRUX is optimized for
i686 and has no pre-requisites for cross-compilation but packages are
rather easily compiled inside scratchbox environment. Gentoo... I
haven't tried gentoo yet, but I'm doing to do so.

I want to know the current status of gentoo-embedded. Can I build a
working rootfs based on uclibc using emerge?

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Vladimir "Farcaller" Pouzanov
http://www.hackndev.com
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Re: [gentoo-embedded] Gentoo on handhelds

[Ned Ludd]

On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 19:22 +0300, Vladimir Pouzanov wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working on linux port to Palm Tungsten T3 (arm-le) handheld.
> Development tasks slowly move from kernel-space to user-space so now
> I'm interested in some base distribution/packaging system for the
> handheld.
> 
> I'm choosing from gentoo-embedded, CRUX and OpenEmbedded. OE is
> targeted for handhelds but it has absolutely weird build system
> (however it is similar to portage... sometimes). CRUX is optimized for
> i686 and has no pre-requisites for cross-compilation but packages are
> rather easily compiled inside scratchbox environment. Gentoo... I
> haven't tried gentoo yet, but I'm doing to do so.
> 
> I want to know the current status of gentoo-embedded. Can I build a
> working rootfs based on uclibc using emerge?

You can build pretty much anything you want for any arch, cross 
or native.. Every so often when using uClibc you will encounter a pkg 
that depends on nls/iconv handling or so.. 
>From my personal experiences I've found that uClibc tends to be 
less problematic when cross compiling vs glibc.

What is lacking is the glue to make the root_fs itself. 
But that task tends to be easy enough (depending on desired fstype).

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Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux

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Re: [gentoo-embedded] Gentoo on handhelds / workpad z50

[nick thompson]

Vladimir Pouzanov wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working on linux port to Palm Tungsten T3 (arm-le) handheld.
> Development tasks slowly move from kernel-space to user-space so now
> I'm interested in some base distribution/packaging system for the
> handheld.
> 
> I'm choosing from gentoo-embedded, CRUX and OpenEmbedded. OE is
> targeted for handhelds but it has absolutely weird build system
> (however it is similar to portage... sometimes). CRUX is optimized for
> i686 and has no pre-requisites for cross-compilation but packages are
> rather easily compiled inside scratchbox environment. Gentoo... I
> haven't tried gentoo yet, but I'm doing to do so.
> 
> I want to know the current status of gentoo-embedded. Can I build a
> working rootfs based on uclibc using emerge?
> 
I am interested in seeing a gentoo port to the IBM workpad z50. I 
currently run netbsd on it, and have been going around and trying to see 
what became of the linux-vr that some had working on the z50 ~2000.

Nick

"All unix, all the time."

http://npt.ath.cx
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Re: [gentoo-embedded] Gentoo on handhelds / workpad z50

[Yoichi Yuasa]

Hi,

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:16:10 -0500
nick thompson <nicholas.thompson1@mchsi.com> wrote:

> Vladimir Pouzanov wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm working on linux port to Palm Tungsten T3 (arm-le) handheld.
> > Development tasks slowly move from kernel-space to user-space so now
> > I'm interested in some base distribution/packaging system for the
> > handheld.
> > 
> > I'm choosing from gentoo-embedded, CRUX and OpenEmbedded. OE is
> > targeted for handhelds but it has absolutely weird build system
> > (however it is similar to portage... sometimes). CRUX is optimized for
> > i686 and has no pre-requisites for cross-compilation but packages are
> > rather easily compiled inside scratchbox environment. Gentoo... I
> > haven't tried gentoo yet, but I'm doing to do so.
> > 
> > I want to know the current status of gentoo-embedded. Can I build a
> > working rootfs based on uclibc using emerge?
> > 
> I am interested in seeing a gentoo port to the IBM workpad z50. I 
> currently run netbsd on it, and have been going around and trying to see 
> what became of the linux-vr that some had working on the z50 ~2000.

z50 kernel is maintained on linux-mips.org .

Yoichi
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